Bookeditors Amal Mattu, Arjun Chanmugam, Stuart Swadron, Dale P. Woolridge, Michael E. Winters ; series editor Lisa Marcucci.
Summary: "In a conversational, easy-to-read style, Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, 2nd Edition, discusses 365 errors commonly made in the practice of emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these pitfalls. Chapters are brief, approachable, and evidence-based, suitable for reading immediately before the start of a rotation, used for quick reference on call, or read daily over the course of one year for personal assessment and review. Key Features: Coverage includes psychiatry, pediatrics, poisonings, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma, general surgery, orthopedics, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, renal, anesthesia and airway management, urology, ENT, and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Completely revised and rewritten by many new authors, as well as returning authors who bring a fresh perspective to new subjects. New key points at the end of each chapter present must-know information in an easy-access, bulleted format. Ideal for emergency medicine physicians, residents, and attendings; emergency nurse practitioners, PAs who practice in the ED, and primary care physicians in urgent care centers. Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS, Android, PC & Mac. Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: the ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time -- providing a seamless reading experience online or offline. Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links allow you to search within this book, or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks Multiple viewing options offer the ability to scale images and text to any size without losing page clarity as well as responsive design. The ability to highlight text and add notes with one click"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Section I: Crashing patient
Don't lose that airway! Imminent airway loss: Who needs endotracheal intubation? / Nicholas Sauber, Dena Reiter
Preoxygenation / Michael R. Ehmann
Airway adjuncts: Know your backup plans / Nicholas Sauber
Know your RSI meds / Daniel Swedien
Did you maximize your laryngeal view? / Devin M. Keefe
Don't fear the blade: Surgical airway / Ernest Mavunga
Do not rely on clinical examination alone for confirmation of endotracheal tube placement / Robert B. Takla, Ashwin Sabbani
The art of bagging / Devin M. Keefe
BP still low? Postintubation hypotension / Alison Traver
Finding the site: Site selection and minimizing complications for central line placement / Dilnaz Panjwani, Richard Paul
Managing cardiac arrest / E. Timpano
Medications in cardiac arrest: Time for a requiem? / Bachar Hamade
What are your vent settings, Bud? / Kelley Crane
After the cardiac arrest : Postarrest care / Chidubem Iloabachie
Cooling, how low do you go? Therapeutic hypothermia in the postarrest patient / Bachar Hamade
Activate the cardiac Cath team following sudden cardiac arrest--don't be afraid to call / Matthew J. Levy
Rush to resuscitation / Daniel Sheets, Randall T. Rhyne
Do not delay the administration of epinephrine for patients with anaphylaxis / Nour Al Jalbout
Putting on the squeeze ... vasopressors / Zachary E. Smith
How much is enough? Transfusions in the bleeding patient: Don't forget the rest of the blood / Emily Streyer Carlisle
Fluid therapy: Beware of (AB)normal saline ---saline choose your resuscitation fluids carefully / Nicole Alexander
ECMO / Casey Carr
Needle this: Do not assume that needle decompression of a tension pneumothorax is reliable and effective / Bahrenegash Getachew
Resuscitative thoracotomy / Michael R. Ehmann, Nathan Woltman
Increased ICP in resuscitation / Nicole Heidenreich
Massive pulmonary thromboembolism and thrombolytics / Nour Al Jalbout
Fluid in the sac? Cardiac tamponade / Ngozi Nweze
Is it wide or is it narrow? PEA: A simplified approach to pulseless electrical activity / Nicholas Risko
Undifferentiated shock / Daniel Sheets, Randall T. Rhyne
Know how to identify abdominal compartment syndrome / Ruben Troncoso Jr., Debjeet Sarkar
Cardiogenic shock / Kevin K. Chung
Know when to administer sodium bicarbonate in the critically ill poisoned patient / Harry E. Heverling, Tiffany C. Fong
Think big vessels: Vascular catastrophes / Kevin K. Chung
Stop the bleeding! Novel therapies: REBOA / Casey Lee Wilson
Avoid the tube! Noninvasive ventilation strategies / Rodica Retezar
Be wary of intubation in the asthma patient / Daniel B. Savage
Section II: Critical care
Stop using benzodiazepines to sedate your critically ill intubated patient / Krystle Shafer, Lillian L. Emlet
Monitor the plateau pressure in intubated ED patients / Brian J. Wright
Forget CVP! Use dynamic markers of volume responsiveness to guide fluid resuscitation in the critically ill patient / Michael Allison
Consider abdominal compartment syndrome in patients with refractory hypotension / Cindy H. Hsu
Know the thresholds for red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill / Michael C. Scott
Perform these simple interventions that make a big difference in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia / Nicholas Johnson
Know how to care for the ICU boarder in your ED / Joshua D. Farkas
Know how to evaluate and manage the intubated patient with refractory hypoxemia / Thomas H. Rozen, Christopher P. Nickson
Ready for prime time? Extracorporeal life support in the ED / Zachary Shinar
Rapidly reverse life-threatening hemorrhage in the patient taking on oral anticoagulant medications / Rory Spiegel
Be ready to discuss and deliver end-of-life care in the emergency department / Ashley Shreves
Section III: Cardiology
Recognize atypical presentations of acute coronary syndrome / Amita Sudhir
Type A behavior: Consider aortic dissection in patients with chest pain and ischemic electrocardiograms / Jessica Balderston, Jeffrey D. Ferguson
Contents under pressure: Aggressive hemodynamic management in patients with acute aortic dissection / Jeffrey D. Ferguson, Jessica Balderston
Do not confuse multifocal atrial tachycardia with atrial fibrillation / Christopher Greene
Do not confuse Mobitz Type I and Mobitz Type II atrioventricular block / C. Blayke Gibson, J. Jeremy Thomas
Be able to recognize electrocardiographic artifact from dysrhythmia / George Glass
Management of atrial fibrillation: Rate control versus rhythm conversion / Charles Khoury, J. Jeremy Thomas
Management of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response / Brian L. Bauerband, J. Jeremy Thomas
Atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome / William J. Brady, Heather T. Streich
Never mistake ventricular tachycardia for supraventricular tachycardia with aberrant conduction / Heather Groth
Know the mimics of ventricular tachycardia / William C. Ferguson, J. Jeremy Thomas
Do not exclude cardiac causes of chest pain because the patient does not have traditional risk factors for acute coronary syndrome / Christopher N. White, J. Jeremy Thomas
Do not forget to consider nontraditional risk factors for coronary artery disease in patients with chest pain / Thomas Hartka
Do not forget about the non-ACS causes of chest pain / Patrick Siler, J. Jeremy Thomas
Be cautious diagnosing "anxiety" or "panic disorder" in patients with chest pain and anxiety / Adam E. Nevel
One and done: Rapid rule-out protocols / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld, Semhar Z. Tewelde
Beware of the "highly sensitive" troponin / Maite Anna Huis in 't Veld, Semhar
When good VADs go bad / Christina Lynn Tupe
Don't stress the stress test in suspected ACS / Christina Lynn Tupe
Remember to obtain a right-sided electrocardiogram in a patient with an inferior myocardial infarction / Carmen Avendano, Semhar Z. Tewelde
Pitfalls in hypertensive emergencies / Stephen D. Lee
Know the differential for ST-segment elevation: It's more than just acute coronary syndrome / Kathleen Stephanos, Semhar Z. Tewelde
Know how to diagnose acute MI in patients with an LBBB or pacemaker / Anthony Roggio
Getting ahead of cardiogenic pulmonary edema: Aggressive nitroglycerin usage / Semhar Z. Tewelde
Beyond diuresis: Treatment adjunctions in cardiogenic pulmonary edema / Nicholas Goodmanson
Know how to differentiate cardiac versus noncardiac causes of syncope / Omoyemi Abebayo
Pearls in syncope ECG interpretation / Omoyemi Adebayo
Pearls in syncope ECG interpretation / Carmen Avendano, Semhar Z. Tewelde
Section IV: Gastroenterology
When an apply doesn't follow the rules / Caroline Brandon
Analgesia for the patient with acute abdominal pain: Don't delay! / Adrian Flores
Get to it early: Sigmoid volvulus / Jorge Ontiveros
Cecal volvulus: Don't miss it! / Jan Marie Shoenberger
Altered mental status in a child: Don't forget about intussusception! / Aaron K. Kornblith, Jeffrey Bullard-Berent
Don't miss aortoenteric fistula: A rare but life-threatening case of gastrointestinal bleeding! / Kristin Berona
Acute mesenteric ischemia: A true abdominal catastophe / Talib Omer
Not all epigastric pain is benign / Alessandra Conforto
Don't underestimate an acute variceal hemorrhage! / Lee Plantmason
Don't be fooled by a subtle presentation---SBP can be deadly! / Alessandro Conforto
Ascending cholangitis aka Biliary Sepsis aka "That other pus under pressure" / Prathap Sooriyakumaran
Acalculous cholecystitis: No stones, no problems? / Christopher Martin, Lauren Longyear
Anticipate bleeding and reverse coagulopathies in patients with live failure / Derek K. Richardson, Barry Schlansky
Boerhave Syndrome: No all life-threatening chest pain involves the heart and lungs / Christopher J. Coyne
Caustic indigestions: Don't make it worse / Erika Flores Uribe, Christopher R. Peabody. Ingested foreign bodies: When to intervene? / Brian Doane
Severe acute pancreatitis can be sneaky / Dennis Hsieh
Use restraint when imagining patients with acute pancreatitis / Derek K. Richardson, Barry Schlansky
The "pain" in chronic pancreatitis / Delphine J. Huang
Abdominal pain in inflammatory bowel disease: A flare or emergent complication? / Margaret Huang
Not every pregnant patients with vomiting has hyperemesis gravidarum / Rolando G. Valenzuela, William K. Mallon
Beward of the patients with painless jaundice / Andrés Guzmán, Rolando G. Valenzuela
ERCP can cause a lot of complications! / Abraham Flinders
Don't be afraid to order a CT on a pregnant patient if she really needs it / Marita M. Harris-Naddell, Michelle D. Lall
How how to deal with displaced PEG tube / Julie V. Valenzuela, Rolando G. Valenzuela
Common pitfalls in point of care ultrasound of the gallbladder! / Kristin Berona
Section V: Cutaneous
Don't miss necrotizing fasciitis! / Shaughn Keating
SJS and TEN: Are they different? / Arun Nair
The spectrum of TEN / Alexander Jenson
Mimics in cellulitis / Shabana Walia
Chickenpox and shingles: More than just a rash / Aaryn K. Hammond
Do not rely on orthostatic vital signs to diagnose volume depletion / Anand K. Swaminathan, Gordon Wu
HHS: When high sugars have got you down! / Stephanie Lareau
Do not over treat hypo- or hypernatremia / Nicole Cimino-Fiallos, Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang
A 3-pronged approach to the treatment of hyperkalemia / Erica B. Shaver, Christopher S. Keifer
Know hot to recognize and treat thyroid storm / Henderson D. McGinnis
Understand the role of magnesium in the treatment of hypolakemia / Erica B. Shaver, Christopher S. Keifer
How to recognize and treat thyroid storm / Henderson D. McGinnis
Understand the role of magnesium in the treatment of hypokalemia / Farhad Aziz, Justin Boone Rose
How to interpret the venous blood gas / Joshua (Josh) Nichols, Corey Heitz
Know the indications for bicarbonate therapy / Kimberly Boswell
Section VII: Environment
Not so fast! Rewarming the cold patient / Kubwimana Moses Mhayamaguru, Christopher G. Williams
Acclimatize or die of descend / Clinton G. Keilman
Aggressive cooling is (almost) always the correct approach to the critical, environmentally hyperthermic patient / Christopher G. Williams
Smoke inhalation: Commonly overtreated and undertreated aspects / Dennis Allin
CO poisoning: It takes more than O2 / Bryan Wilson, Christopher G. Williams
A rash that is more than "just a rash" / Nash Whitaker
Diving inhuries: Don't miss these serious injuries because you failed to get the history! / Michael Iacono, Tracy Leigh LeGros
Section VIII: HEENT
Giant cell arteries / Who the heck is Horton and why should I worry about his headache? / Aisha Parker, James Aiken
Sight-threatening ZOSTER ophthalmicus: How to recognize and treat / Suh H. Lee, John Villani
And the eyes have it / Summer Stears-Ellis
"Your patient has a retrobulbar hematoma. I think he's going to need a canthotomy." / Jonathan Dangers
Beware the sore throat that kills / Diane Rimple
Consider a deep space neck infection in a child with a fever and neck pain or torticollis / Joanna Schwartz
Lemierre Syndrome: Lemierre syndrome: A royal pain in the neck / Frank J. Edwards
Peritonsillar abscess / Ben Leeson, Kimberly Leeson
Peritonsillar abscess / Ben Leeson, Kimberly Leeson
Don't misdiagnose, overtreat, or cause perforation of the tympanic membrane / John Herrick
If it ain't cancer, why do I call this malignant otitis externa? / Allison D. Lane
Approach to the red eye / Lindsey Retterath, Hans Bradshaw
Eyeing the causes of acute vision loss / Benjamin Karfunkle, Anna McFarlin
Face-eating fungus: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis / Eric C. Funk, Casey M. Clements
Digging for gold: Some nuggets about epistaxis / Josh Mugele
Ludwig Angina---"The German Stranglehold" / Dustin Leigh
Dental exams are not just for dentists; Remember to identify and treat oral infections / Ashley Sievers
The infection behind the infection: Distinguishing periorbital from orbital cellulitis / Samuel J. Tate, John S. Rose
Section IX: HEME ONC
When kidneys explode; Everything is wrong with tumor lysis syndrome / Daniel Cabrera
Immune thrombocytopenia: Oh the platelets, you'll go / Nicole Muhlbauer, Neha Bhasin
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic Purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome: Bloody zebras with a bad bite / Stephen A. Manganaro
High temps and low counts: Treat febrile neutropenic patients with early and appropriate antibiotics / Matthew W. Connelly, Steven Roumpf
My chest! My back! My sickle cell attack! / Cullen Clark, Anna McMarlin
Warfarin reversal: Factor it in / William B. Stubblefield, Daren M. Beam
Emergent anticoagulant reversal: Be appropriately aggressive / Keith Azevedo, Isaac Tawil
Recognize leukostasis and know when to consult for emergent treatment / Cameron Hypes
Section X: Immune
Don't get stung by anaphylaxis / Vincent Devlin, Jerussa Aita-Levy
Angioedema and anaphylaxis are not the same, they just happen to present similarly / Lui Caleon, Pierre Detiege
Treacherous transplant toxicities / Christopher J. Edwards, Tsz Yee (Janice) Tsui
Think outside the "graft box" when evaluating the transplant patient / Timothy S. Davie
Do's and don'ts for managing heart transplant patients in the ED / Lawrence DeLuca Jr.,
Anaphylaxis and epinephrine--Can you have one without the other? / Ronna L. Campbell
Section XI: Infectious disease
Avoid relying on the presence of SIRS to diagnose sepsis / Kami M. Hu, Joseph P. Martinez
Prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in the emergency room / Stephen Y. Liang
Know the embolic complications of infective endocarditis / Brian Edwards
The don't miss diagnosis: Acute retroviral syndrome / Adeolu Ogunbodede, Joseph P. Martinez
Understand when and how to initiate HIV postexposure prophylaxis in the emergency department / Stephen Y. Liang, Ed Casabar
Recognize the presentation of bioterrorism agents / Stephen P. Shaheen, Jon Mark Hirshon
Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome: Do not hesitate--resuscitate / Sarah B. Dubbs
Do not be misled by the traditional myths of diarrhea / Michael Nitzberg, Kevin Reed
Meningitis doesn't have to be a pain in the neck! / Nick Tsipis, Liesl. A. Curtis
Know emerging infections / Travis Thompson, Lindsey White
TB and syphilis: Infections you can't forget about / Kayla Dewey, Ghofrane Benghanem
Avoiding common pitfalls in influenza treatment / Eric Stephen Kiechle, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Appropriate antibiotic choices for resistant organisms / Jessica E. Shackman, Kathryn M. Kellogg
Know infection prevention / Lindsey DeGeorge, Lauren Wiesner
Treating pneumonia in COPD / Diana Ladkany, Jeffrey Dubin
Diagnose and treat necrotizing soft tissue infections quickly! / Tabitha Gargano, Korin Hudson
What is the best way to measure core temperature? / Matthew Morrison
Section XII: MS Nontrauma
Ugh! Another repeat visit for back pain?! Keep epidural abscesses on the differential! / Courtney K. Soley, Heather Miller Fleming
Section XII: MS Nontrauma
Ugh! Another rapid repeat visit?! / Courtney L. Solely, Heather Miller Flemming
Under pressure : Rapidly diagnosing and treating and treating acute compartment syndrome of the extremities / Anna L. Waterbrook
Physical exam and bloodwork do not adequately differentiate infections from inflammatory arthritis / Derick D. Jones, Casey M. Clements
Don't get broken up about muscle breakdown / H. Shae Sauncy
When back pain is an emergency / James Bohan
Rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies / J. Stephan Stapeczynski. Section XIII: Neuro
An update on ideiopathic intracranial hypertension / Evelyn Lee, Ramin Tabatabai
Normal diagnosis studies do not rule out shunt malfunction / Amy Buckowski
Don't be fooled into erroneously diagnosing peripheral vertigo / Daniel Mindlin
Diagnosing cervical artery dissection in the ED: A real pain in the neck! / Erik R. Hofmann, Ramin Tabatabai
Posterior circulation ischemic stroke: If you don't think about it, you'll miss it / Craig Torres-Ness
Understand the utility and limitations of diagnostic imaging in nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage / Manuel R. Montano
Don't forgot atypical causes of status epilepiticus! / R. James Salway
Leave it alone: Blood pressure measurement in ischemic stroke / Amir A. Rouhani
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A rare diagnosis with a common chief complaint / Margarita Santiago-Martinez, Stuart Swadron
Great imitators of acute stroke / Aarti Fain
Blood pressure in the patient with intracranial hemorrhage--Bring it down! / Daniel R. Ruiz, Edward Stettner
How to disposition the patient with suspected TIA / Allen Chiou, Mindi Guptill
The elusive brain abscess / Shikha Kapil, Jeffrey N. Siegelman
Bulbar symptoms in the ED: Watch the airway / Ariel Bowman
Multiple sclerosis in the ED: Rule out other diagnoses first / Christopher Bodle, Melissa White
Section XIV: OB/GYN
Early pregnancy: Sifting out the potential catastrophes from the worried well / Jared T. Marx
Pitfalls in the pursuit of ovarian torsion / Matthew C. DeLaney
Anti-D in the ED / Brent Lorenzen
Seizing young woman? Think eclampsia. Thinking eclampsia? Think again. / Kenneth D. Marshall
Vaginal bleeding in late pregnancy / Heather A. Heaton
Predict the unpredictable: Preterm labor / Priya Kuppusamy
A bump on the bump: Minor abdominal trauma in pregnancy / Elias J. Jaffa, Sreeja Natesan
Stable is the new abnormal: Beware the normal vital signs in pregnancy / Priya Kuppusamy
Don't fear the cord! / Erika Hoenke McMahon, Kristina Colbenson
Timas a wastin': Perimortem Cesarean section/ Vivienne Ng
Clotted lungs: Not all shortness of breath in pregnancy is from Lamaze class / Jeremy Lux
Postpartum complications / Heather A. Heaton
There is no single test to rule out PID: Just treat it! / Theresa Q. Tran, Casey M. Clements
Don't dismiss the young, female patient with shortness of breathe without considering peripartum cardiomyopathy / Kathi Glauner
Section XV: Psych
Delirium / Casey Carr
Restraint with restraints: Patient restraint / Grant Nelson, Robert B. Dunne
Mental status concern? Consider psychosis / Sarika Walia, Shabana Walia
Ask about suicide risk / Trent R. Malcolm, Donald W. Alves
Strange behavior? Personality disorders in the ED / Kerri N. Booker
Don't ignore affective disorders! / Trent R. Malcolm
Drug-seeking behavior in the emergency department / Michael Wolfe Pierce
Anxiety in the emergency department / Sachin Moonat
Address it in the ED, substance abuse in the emergency department / Sachin Moonat
Section XVI: Genitourinary
Don't let dialysis disequilibrium syndrome catch you off-balance / Carmen Wolfe
Fournier Gangrene: A lethal infection you can't sit on! / Shoma Desai
Testicular torsion trickery / Solomon Behar
Hemodialysis: Who needs it now? / Michael Levine
To thrill or not to thrill: When dialysis access sites go wrong / Caroline Brandon
Wrap your head around this: Avoiding the pitfalls of phimosis and paraphimosis management / Kelly A. Painter
Pyelonephritis: When it's complicated urine trouble / Molly Hartrich, Sophie Terp
What goes up must come down / Jessica Lange Osterman
Streamlining urethritis: Don't let an STD escape your ED / Clare Roepke
I don't think my urine is supposed to look like this! / Landon A. Jones
Section XVII: Thoracic
Do not forget to administer steroids in patients with acute asthma exacerbations / Michele Callahan
Do not withhold oxygen in a hypoxic patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Brian J. Lin, Anand K. Swaminathan
Know acute illnesses that lead to rapid deterioration in the patient with pulmonary hypertension / Dhaval Thakkar, James Mathew Dargin
Know the critical issues in resuscitation of the decompensated patient with pulmonary hypertension / Jacob C. Jentzer, James Mathew
Know the evaluation and management of the patient with sarcoidosis / Harman S. Gill
Properly risk stratify the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Kelly Williamson
Know how to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism / Ryan Dick-Perez, Nicholas M. Mohr
Know which patients with submassive pulmonary embolism may benefit from thrombolytic therapy / Sangeeth Dubbireddi, Lillian L. Emlet
Know which patients with submassive pulmonary embolism may benefit from thrombolytic therapy / Sangeeth Dubbireddi, Lilliam L. Emlet
Understand proper ventilator management in patients with acute asthma exacerbations / Salim Rezaie, Anand K. Swaminathan
Know the causes, evaluation, and management of hemoptysis / Matthew P. Borloz
Use high-flow nasal cannula in patients with mild to moderate respiratory distress from hypoxemia / Ross McCormack, Jonathan Elmer
Section XVIII: Tox
Alcohol intoxication and withdrawal / Candice Jordan
Acetaminophen toxicity: Getting reacquanted with Matthew and Rumack / David Rose
Mixed disturbance: Think salicylate poisoning / Harry E. Heverling, Tiffany C. Fong
Toxic alcohols / Candice Jordan
The five stages iron toxicity: Beware of the latent period / Christina Clark
Don't miss anticholinergic syndromes! / Theodore Fagrelius
Cholinergic poisoning / Theodore Fagrelius
An old favorite heart medication: Digoxin / Daniel B. Savage
Did you consider intravenous lipid emulsion therapy? / Aaryn K. Hammond, Donald W. Alves
Managing the hot and bothered: Sympathomimetic overdoses / Arun Nair
Engaging drugs of abuse / Chelsea Williamson
Cyanide poisoning: A tale of two antidotes / Scott E. Sutherland
Methemoglobinemia: Blue pearls / Dilnaz Panjwani, Mitchell Louis Judge Li
Should I take that? Nutritional supplements / Edmund Timpano, Sarika Walia
Section XIX: Trauma/Ortho
Electrical injuries: Shocking or subtle? / Tim Horeczko
"Don't tase me bro!" The TASERed patient in the ED / Peter Milano
Managing penetrating neck injuries: Hard or soft, superficial or deep? / Melissa Joseph
To crack or not to crack: Indications for an ED thoracotomy / Sanjay Blatt
Save a limb! Vascular injury in penetrating extremity trauma / Taylor McCormick
Judicious abdominal imaging in trauma / Erick A. Eiting
Severe traumatic brain injury: Avoid making it worse! / Ashkon Ansari
Fluid resuscitation in trauma: Five pitfalls / Erick A. Eiting
How do you fill a tank with holes in it? Optimal vascular access in trauma resuscitation / Benjamin D. Musser
Don't be afraid to place a chest tube / Dhara P. Amin
Massive transfusion in trauma: A changing landscape / Tarlan Hedayati
Reversal of warfarin in trauma / Joseph S. Palter
Reversal of novel anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents / Dhara P. Amin
When to suspect cervical vascular injury / Tarlan Hedayati, Stuart Swadron
Alternatives to packed red blood cells: The latest / Tarla Hedayati
Tough break: Assessing and treating rib fractures / Michael Gottlieb
Not so FAST: Perils and pitfalls with the FAST exam / Michael Gottlieb
Closing the book: Using a bedsheet to stabilize pelvic fractures / Michael Gottlieb, Stuard Swadron
Is spinal immobilization still necessary? / Joseph Palter
Are vital signs reliable at assessing degree of hemorrhage? / Michael K. Safa
The ABCs of major burns / Mary L. Cheffers, Stuart Swadron
When can interventional radiology (IR) be your friend in trauma? / Lee Plantmason, Eric Wei
Don't miss the gamekeeper thumb? / Brian R. Sharp
Admit displaced supracondylar fractures for neurovascular checks / Allison S. Luu, Eric Wei. Know the radiographic signs of scapholunate dislocation / Nicholas Abraham, Stuart Swadron
Know the difference between Jones and Pseudo-Jones fractures / Brian R. Sharp
Search for other injuries in patients with scapular fracture / John W. Martel
Do you know how to do ABIs? / John C. Ray
Don't miss the proximal fibula fracture in patients with ankle fracture / Shawn K. Kaku, Stuart Swadron
Boxer's fracture? Check for rotational deformity! / Jennifer Marvil
Think of Achilles tendon rupture in patients with sprained ankle / Jennifer Farah
Reduce hip dislocations in a timely manner / Erik A. Berg
Check for snuffbox tenderness and don't miss a scaphoid fracture / Benjamin D. Musser
Calcaneal fracture? Don't miss a spinal injury! / Sara Khaghani
Beward of benign-appearing high-pressure injection injuries / Jennifer Farah
Lisfranc injury: Danger in the midfoot / Lee Plantmason
The dorsal chip: Is it a trequetral fracture? / Caroline Brandon
Lunate and perilunate dislocations: Pick these up on initial presentation! / Todd Schneberk
Red flags for intimate partner violence and human trafficking / Kristi Stanley
Section XX: Procedures/Skills/Anesth
Sedation pearls and pitfalls: Procedural sedation in the emergency department / Chidubem Ilobachie, Dena Reiter
Capnography in the ED: Qualitative or quantitative monitoring? For CPR and a whole lot more / Arun Nair
To transfuse or not to transfuse / Debra Ravert
Transfusion confusion: Types and management of transfusion reactions / Scott E. Sutherland
Arthrocentesis tips / Christine Mlynarek, Ashley Sullivan
Lumbar puncture and the Champagne tap / Chelsea Williamson
Tapping the belly: Paracentesis in the emergency department / Thaer Ahmad, Leonard Bunting
Careful with that tap: Accessing the VP shunt / Derrick Ashong
No IV, consider the IO / Daniel B. Savage
What nerve! Ultrasound-guided regional nerve blocks / Casey Lee Wilson
A needling issue: Decompressing tension pneumothorax / Arun Nair
Which line is it? Central line placement / Dilmaz Panjwani, Richard Paul
Size matters: Spontaneous pneumothorax: Chest tube versus pigtail / Derrick Ashong
Section XXI
Recognize child abuse early / Clifford C. Ellingson
Tips for managing all that is pediatric resuscitation / Jason Saunders, Heather Saavedra
Keep the baby warm! And other steps in neonatal resuscitation / Ashley Grigsby, Jessica Kanis
The pediatric airway: Learn it, live it, control it! / Garrett S. Pacheco
All that barks is not croup / Sheryl Yanger
Don't get in hot water by not knowing how to treat pediatric burns / Megan Litzau, Sheryl E. Allen
My baby won't stop crying! / J. Adam Hawkins, Timothy Ruttan
Pediatric procedural sedation in the ED: Easier than you may think / Jordan Alexander Justice
The ins and outs of intussusception / Geoffrey P. Hays, Debra S. Rusk
Do not rely on urinalysis to exclude urinary tract infections in children younger than two years / Arturo S. Gastañaduy
A bundle of joy! The sick neonate / Robert Vezzetti
Beware pediatric appendicitis / Julia Schweizer
Diagnoses not to miss in the acutely limping child / Guyon J. Hill
Don't diagnose sepsis in an alkalotic infant / Lisa D. Mills, Julianne Awrey
BRUE: The diagnosis formerly known as ALTE / Julia N. Magana, Taylor Stayton
"Kid ECGs are not just little adult ECGs" / Krista Young
Not all pediatric head injuries require a head CT / Heather Miller Fleming, Kara Kowalczyk
Easy does it: Be cautious with the cyanotic postoperative pediatric cardiac patient / Timothy Ruttan
Not too sweet: Getting it just right in initial pediatric DKA management / Dariush Garber, Nathan Kupperman
Pediatric concussion: A levelheaded approach / Kendra Grether-Jones, Erin Osiecki
Section XXII: Geriatrics
Do not underestimate the potential morbidity of abdominal pain in older adults / Christina L. Shenvi
Think about ACS in older adults--Even without chest pain / Christina L. Shenvi
ACS the geriatric patient: Atypical is typical treatment differences in ACS in the geriatric patient / Terrence Mulligan
Follow your elders' footsteps, they may be ataxic / Jennifer L. Plitt, Michelle Rhodes
Hip and vertebral compression fractures / Sang Keun, "Sam" Yi, Paul Blackburn
Be sure to build a safety net around the weak geriatric patient you send home / Eric M. LeFebvre
Grandma is loopy: Special considerations for altered mental status in the older adult / Christine R. Stehman
The geriatric trauma patient is sicker than you realize / Rebecca Milligan, Michelle Rhodes
A normal physical exam does not exclude infections in the geriatric patient / Danya Khoujah
Respecting they elders: Defining, detecting, and reporting elder abuse / Patricia Bayless
How to avoid snowing seniors: Pain medications and procedural sedation in older adults / Lisa C. Goldberg, Michelle Rhodes
The consequences of grandpa's loaded medicine cabinet / Ryan Gallagher, Stephen Thornton
Communicating and understanding the elder patient / Collyn T. Murray, Kevin Biese
Section XXIII: Wound care
Deep sutures: When, why, and why not? / Hollynn Larrabee, R. Alissa Mussell
Pitfalls in emergency department abscess incision and drainage / David Wein, Jesse Dubey
Keep it clean: Pitfalls in traumatic wound irrigation / Anand K. Swaminathan, Elicia Skelton
Plantar puncture wound pearls and pitfalls / R. Gentry Wilkerson
Do not believe the adage that epinephrine cannot be used for digital blocks / Feras Khan
When are prophylactic antibiotics indicated for wounds? / Dale Cotton
Do not miss a foreign body in a wound / Jason W. Wilson, Constantino Diaz
Know how to treat mammalian bites / Christopher I. Doty
Is that skin lesion an infection or an envenomation? / Spencer Greene, Veronica Tucci
Know how to treat snake bites / Frederick C. Blum, Shabnam Nourparvar
Eyelid lacerations: When to repair and when to refer / Erin Setzer
Ear injuries and lacerations / Anas Sawas, Eric J. Morley
Know which wounds to close ... and which ones to leave open / Raymond Beyda, Mark Silverberg
Section XXIV: Clinical practice and legal issues
Consult communications: Optimal communications with consultants / Hugh F. Hill
Treating the patient and not the disease: Tips for patient satisfaction / Dylan Sean Kellogg
Your patient has died, now focus on the family: How to deliver bad news to family members / Dylan Sean Kellogg
Don't be afraid to discuss end-of-life decisions with the patient and family / Emily Streyer Carlisle
Too many at one time? Emergency department overcrowding / Ryan Brooks, Arjun Chanmugam
Discharge documentation: Keep it clear, concise, yet complete / David Rose
Resident and advanced practice provider supervision / Patricia Petrella Nouhan
What to do with so many? Strategies for reducing emergency department overcrowding / Ryan Brooks, Arjun Chanmugam
What to do when the registered letter arrives / Kevin M. Klauer
Your deposition / Kevin M. Klauer
Surviving a lawsuit / Hugh F. Hill III.